Walter Sickert : a life
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- 2005
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- Sickert, Walter, 1860-1942, Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography, Peintres -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies, Painters, Great Britain
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- London : Harper Perennial
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xvi, 768 pages, [32] pages . of plates : 20 cm
Walter Richard Sickert is perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last hundred years. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon to Auerbach and Kossof, acknowledge a debt to his influence. His career spanned six decades of unceasing experiment and achievement. As a young artist, he was welcomed and encouraged by Degas. He was the disciple of Whistler and mentor of Beardsley. He founded the London impressionists and the Camden Town Group. He was taken up by both the Woolfs and the Sitwells. He gave painting lessons to Winston Churchill
His energy was prodigious and his personality fascinating: he was also an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, polemicist, teacher and wit. He relished controversy: his early paintings of London music halls and his late works, based on 18th century etchings and contemporary news photographs, provoked outraged criticism from conventional commentators
Sturgis also devotes an appendix to charting in detail Sickert's posthumous life as a player in the 'Jack the Ripper' circus, assessing (and demolishing) the arguments of Patricia Cornwell and others in the light of his own discoveries
Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 2005
Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-653) and index
1. A well-bred artist -- The Münchener kind'l' -- A new home -- L'enfant terrible -- 2. Apprentice or student? -- The utility player -- Whistler's studio -- Relative values -- 3. Impressions and opinions -- The butterfly propaganda -- A new English artist -- The London impressionists -- Unfashionable portraiture -- In black and white -- 4. The end of the act -- Gathering clouds -- Bridge of sighs -- The gentle art of making enemies -- Amantium irae -- 5. Jack abroad -- A watering place out of season -- Changing effects -- Gaîté Montparnasse -- Dal Vero -- 6. Londra Benedetta -- The lady in red -- Ambrosial nights -- Mr. Sickert at home -- The artist as teacher -- 7. Contre jour -- Les affaires de Camden Town -- An imperfect modern -- Red, white, and blue -- Suspense -- 8. The new age -- The conduct of a talent -- Private view -- How old do I look? -- 9. Lazarus raised -- Over the footlights -- Home life -- Bathamption -- Cheerio -- Postscript: Walter Sickert: case closed
Walter Richard Sickert is perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last hundred years. Many contemporary painters, from Hodgkin and Bacon to Auerbach and Kossof, acknowledge a debt to his influence. His career spanned six decades of unceasing experiment and achievement. As a young artist, he was welcomed and encouraged by Degas. He was the disciple of Whistler and mentor of Beardsley. He founded the London impressionists and the Camden Town Group. He was taken up by both the Woolfs and the Sitwells. He gave painting lessons to Winston Churchill
His energy was prodigious and his personality fascinating: he was also an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, polemicist, teacher and wit. He relished controversy: his early paintings of London music halls and his late works, based on 18th century etchings and contemporary news photographs, provoked outraged criticism from conventional commentators
Sturgis also devotes an appendix to charting in detail Sickert's posthumous life as a player in the 'Jack the Ripper' circus, assessing (and demolishing) the arguments of Patricia Cornwell and others in the light of his own discoveries
Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 2005
Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-653) and index
1. A well-bred artist -- The Münchener kind'l' -- A new home -- L'enfant terrible -- 2. Apprentice or student? -- The utility player -- Whistler's studio -- Relative values -- 3. Impressions and opinions -- The butterfly propaganda -- A new English artist -- The London impressionists -- Unfashionable portraiture -- In black and white -- 4. The end of the act -- Gathering clouds -- Bridge of sighs -- The gentle art of making enemies -- Amantium irae -- 5. Jack abroad -- A watering place out of season -- Changing effects -- Gaîté Montparnasse -- Dal Vero -- 6. Londra Benedetta -- The lady in red -- Ambrosial nights -- Mr. Sickert at home -- The artist as teacher -- 7. Contre jour -- Les affaires de Camden Town -- An imperfect modern -- Red, white, and blue -- Suspense -- 8. The new age -- The conduct of a talent -- Private view -- How old do I look? -- 9. Lazarus raised -- Over the footlights -- Home life -- Bathamption -- Cheerio -- Postscript: Walter Sickert: case closed
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